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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 1-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?
(a) Small acts of love and kindness performed for others.
(b) The positive memories created for others.
(c) Helping others focus on the important aspects of life.
(d) Gestures of love and respect from others.

2. What kind of building is an abbey?
(a) A cathedral.
(b) A monastery or convent.
(c) A country home.
(d) A castle.

3. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?
(a) Its tone.
(b) Its perspective.
(c) Its syntax.
(d) Its length.

4. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.
(b) Confusion about his own ambitions.
(c) Confusion about his relationships.
(d) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.

5. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?
(a) The hermit and vagrants.
(b) The wreaths of smoke.
(c) The unripe fruits.
(d) The entire landscape.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?

2. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?

3. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

4. What kind of image opens the poem?

5. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?

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